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Professor George AkitaProf. Akita was born in Hawaii, and received his B.A. from the University of Hawaii in 1951, majoring in government. He proceeded to Harvard University for his M.A. in Regional Studies (East Asia), 1953, and his Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and History, with Edwin Reischauer as his adviser, in 1960. He was in Tokyo from 1957 to 1961 as a civilian with the U.S. Department of Army, and then became an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii, with subsequent promotion to associate professor and full professor, until his retirement in 1984. As professor emeritus he now spends eight months of the year in Japan, working with Japanese scholars. His book Foundations of Constitutional Government in Modern Japan, 1868-1900 was published by Harvard University Press in 1967, with a second impression in 1972; it was translated into Japanese and published by Tokyo University Press in 1971. He has also been co-editor with Japanese scholars of primary documents on Meiji political leaders. Prof. Akita addressed the ASJ in May 1982 on the subject of Government and Opposition in Prewar JapanE(during the course of which he named Herbert Bix among the American historians who followed the Marxist interpretation of history prevalent in Japan). His paper was published in Vol. 18 of Series III of the Transactions, 1983. |
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